Quotes About Confidence

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!" — Urahara Kisuke

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida

Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it.

There is only one thing to fear… To become a warrior without fear.

Fear is not born in a vacuum. It is born as the slightest…insecurity in your heart is eaten away.

Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque, had power over me.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.

Sergeant Louis Loiselle was the nearest. Short and dark-haired, he was a former member of French parachute forces and had been detailed to DGSE some years before. Loiselle was vanilla, a utility infielder, good in everything but a nonspecialist specialist—like all of the men, a weapons expert, and, his file said, a brilliant marksman with pistol and rifle. He had an easy, relaxed smile with a good deal of confidence behind it.

That's damned likely," Gant interjected

can't take him up there for a short haircut." Hallston smiled coldly. "I doubt anyone

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

It's okay to be scared. I was scared all the time. The important part is to know that you're going to do it.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

we've found is that we don't have to generate creativity from scratch. We just need to help people rediscover what they already have: the capacity to imagine—or build upon—new-to-the-world ideas. But the real value of creativity doesn't emerge until you are brave enough to act on those ideas. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

when people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

Individuals who come to believe that they can effect change are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. Bandura calls that conviction "self-efficacy." People with self-efficacy set their sights higher, try harder, persevere longer, and show more resilience in the face of failure.

The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.